[58.07] Evidence that Radio Pulsars may be Artificial Beacons of ETI Origin

P. A. LaViolette (The Starburst Foundation)

This paper presents evidence indicating that pulsar sky
positions are nonrandomly distributed in a pattern that is
not easily attributed to natural causes. As one example,
about 12% of the pulsar population are concentrated along
the galactic equator in an ``arrow-like" clump extending
from \ell ~ 32\arcdeg~ to \ell ~ 57\arcdeg, the
number of pulsars progressively rising with increasing
longitude until at the northern one-radian longitude point
(\ell = 57.24\arcdeg) their concentration drops
precipitously by almost 3 fold, as if to mark this location.
The pulsar clump does not overly any enhancement in star
population and hence has no easy explanation if pulsars are
the result of natural stellar evolution, nor is the clump an
artifact of observational selection. On the other hand, if
pulsars are ETI communication beacons, an obvious choice as
a topic for communication would be to indicate the
termination point of a one radian arc deviation from the
Galactic center since such a geometrically unique off-center
viewer-dependent location is not preferred by any natural
process. Moreover designating this longitude indicates to us
that the senders know the sky location of the Galactic
center as seen from our vantage point, and hence that they
intend their beamed message specifically for our particular
Galactic locale.

Other nonrandom pulsar positions, further emphasize the
northern one-radian longitude point. For example, this
pulsar clump termination point is marked by the Millisecond
Pulsar (B1937+21), the most rapid of all known pulsars and
also one of only two pulsars known to emit giant pulses as
well as optical pulses. This unique pulsar is the closest of
all pulsars to this one-radian benchmark, deviating by just
0.27\arcdeg. In addition, the tip of this clump is also
marked by another equally unique millisecond pulsar
(B1957+20), which is the second most rapid pulsar in the sky
and is distinguished as being one of just 4 eclipsing binary
millisecond pulsars. This second pulsar is unusual in that
its period is just 3.18 percent longer than that of the
Millisecond pulsar, approximating the percentage amount that
the sky position longitude of B1957+20 (\ell =
59.2\arcdeg) surpasses the longitude of the one radian point
(\ell = 57.24\arcdeg). This and other nonrandom pulsar
position relations, suggest that pulsars comprise a vast
network of ETI beacons that extends throughout the Galaxy
and is beaming signals in our particular direction.1

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